A primer on Google sitemaps

Posted by Anton-io! | 11:29 PM | , | 0 comments »

Scratching my head on XML sitemaps again. Yes I've written them before, but now am writing a little script to automate the process. (Remember ... it's all about automation & making your life easier)

What it is?

A Google sitemap is a file which contains URLs and some additional information for all public pages or documents of your website.

So here's a quick update, a so called 'cheat cheet' for Google sitemaps. These links should get you started in the right direction.

Make sure you have a Google Webmaster Tools account

Here's a recent FAQ post from Google Webmaster blog on sitemaps
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/01/sitemaps-faqs.html

Sitemap protocol
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php

Validating your XML sitemap
http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv

Nice & simple class for creating xml sitemaps with PHP
http://www.idealog.us/2006/09/php_class_for_c.html

Gracias!

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